Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
1,300: Number of hospitals, payers and students who weighed in on the nursing shortage in our special report. Like Arleth Flores, the 24-year-old nursing grad who wants to work at a local school and urgent care center but is waiting due to delays in administering the board test. Nurse staffing challenges are likely here to stay over the next few years but lawmakers, health systems and even educators are trying to create solutions in real-time, like Evolve Health’s new hospital alliance that shares HR best practices on employee well-being, diversity and inclusion program implementation, and...
Feb 8, 2022 | Legislation/ Budgets/ Macro, Medicare, Uncategorized
CMS released the 2023 Medicare Advantage Advance (MA) Notice on February 2, 2022. The proposed rate updates in combination with CMS’ estimate of payment increases due to risk coding behavior would increase MA plan payments by +7.98% relative to last year. Click to read more.
Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
The brief highlights recent Medicaid policy developments in key states over the past week, including, but not limited to: CA: Legislature debates bill seeking to establish single-payer healthcare system MD: Bill introduced to cover adult dental through MCOs instead of a separate program NV: New law requires providers to report certain business arrangements to DHHS OK: OHCA and Pear Therapeutics enter into an opioid related value-based agreement Click to read more.
Nov 23, 2021 | Physician Fee Schedule, Uncategorized
OB/GYN: Medicare FFS reimbursement for OB/GYN has been increasing in recent years due to E&M changes. There has been some program integrity developments around the specialty and Biden's Build Back Better package aims to increase Medicaid and CHIP postpartum coverage. Click to read more.
Sep 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
61: Percent of college kids polled by my 17-year-old this past month via his 2,300 Instagram followers who were sick enough in the last 30 days to miss class, take Nyquil, call home, and contemplate whether to go to the clinic given the risk, in their mind, of being quarantined or sent back home. Just 10% who were sick went to the clinic. My son Jack was not one of them, but the upside is he called home… New Uterine Fibroid Treatment Covered: Anthem will begin covering an intrauterine ultrasound system offering treatment for symptomatic uterine fibroids that does not require an incision or...
